50 Fun Facts About The Conjuring

Which two actors play Ed and Lorraine Warren in the four main Conjuring films?

Both spent three days at Lorraine Warren's Connecticut home before shooting the first film, and she visited the set; a 2027 prequel casts younger actors.

Who directed the first two Conjuring films?

Wan handed the third and fourth main films to Michael Chaves, who had impressed him on The Curse of La Llorona.

The Perron family in the first film move into a farmhouse in which US state?

The real Perron case dates to 1971 in Harrisville; the town of Enfield in the sequel is in London.

At what time does every clock in the Perron house stop?

It is the exact minute the witch Bathsheba killed herself in 1863 after cursing the land.

What is the name of the accused witch whose spirit possesses Carolyn Perron?

The script makes her a relative of Mary Towne Eastey, one of the women hanged at Salem; some critics found that premise offensive.

How many daughters do Roger and Carolyn Perron have in the film?

Andrea, Nancy, Christine, Cindy and April, plus a dog called Sadie who refuses to enter the house.

Which haunted object does Ed add to the Warrens' artifact room at the end of the first film?

The zoetrope arrives after Enfield, the altar cup after the Glatzel case and the shattered mirror after the Smurls.

The Conjuring was shot chronologically over 38 days mostly in and around which city?

Part of it was filmed at UNC Wilmington while the campus was on spring break.

What working title did James Wan briefly give the first film before it reverted to The Conjuring?

Producer Tony DeRosa-Grund had spent almost 14 years trying to get his treatment made under the original title.

Composer Joseph Bishara did more than score the first film. Which entity did he play on screen?

He had already appeared as a demon in Wan's Insidious, and heard 'brass clustering' as his first response to the script.

The MPAA gave the first film an R rating for an unusual reason. What was it?

Executive producer Walter Hamada said the board could find no specific scene to cut to earn a PG-13.

Roughly how much did the first film gross worldwide on a $20M budget?

Deadline estimated a total profit of $161.7 million once all costs were counted.

The Conjuring was the first horror film ever to receive which grade from CinemaScore audiences?

The sequel matched it three years later; Last Rites managed only a B.

Whose 1980 book The Demonologist led to a lawsuit claiming the films breached his Warrens deal?

Warner Bros. settled with him in December 2017; his later book The Devil in Connecticut fed the third film.

The Conjuring 2 sends the Warrens to which London borough to investigate a poltergeist?

In the UK the film was released as The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Case.

Which infamous American haunting do the Warrens investigate in the opening of The Conjuring 2?

The seance there gives Lorraine her first vision of the demon nun and of Ed being impaled.

What is the name of the elderly man whose spirit speaks through Janet Hodgson?

He turns out to be only a pawn of the real demon, which is using him to break Janet's will.

What name does Lorraine scratch into her Bible in a trance, and later use to banish the demon nun?

Speaking the demon's name gives her dominion over it and sends it back to Hell.

Which song does Patrick Wilson perform on guitar for the Hodgson children in The Conjuring 2?

The soundtrack also uses London Calling by the Clash and the Bee Gees' I Started a Joke.

Before reshoots in March 2016, what did the sequel's main antagonist originally look like?

Wan felt the design did not fit and reshot it as a nun, casting Bonnie Aarons, to keep the film grounded.

Why did the producers have a priest bless the set of The Conjuring 2 before filming?

The blessing came from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe.

The London shoot for The Conjuring 2 was based in and around a pub in which residential district?

The Warrington pub stood in for the streets around the Hodgson house; the crew also shot at Marylebone station.

Which haunted toy from the Hodgson house joins the Warrens' collection at the end of the sequel?

A spin-off film about the Crooked Man was announced in 2017 but Wan later said it had stalled.

Until It (2017), The Conjuring 2 was the second highest-grossing horror film behind which title?

It made $323 million worldwide, about 0.5% more than the first film, and did better internationally.

The Devil Made Me Do It is based on the 1981 trial of which man, who claimed demonic possession?

He was convicted of manslaughter and served five years, marrying Debbie Glatzel while in prison.

How old is David Glatzel, whose exorcism opens The Devil Made Me Do It?

Julian Hilliard, who plays him, returns as a wedding guest in Last Rites.

In the third film, who turns out to be the occultist behind the curse?

The former priest Kastner had secretly raised her, and his own occult research drew her in.

Where was The Devil Made Me Do It filmed in mid-2019?

Farmiga wrapped her scenes that August; COVID-19 then pushed the reshoots and the release back to June 2021.

Alongside cinemas, The Devil Made Me Do It streamed for one month on which service?

It was part of Warner Bros.' plan for its entire 2021 slate.

Which director took over the main series for The Devil Made Me Do It and Last Rites?

Wan chose him after they worked together on The Curse of La Llorona.

The Conjuring: Last Rites dramatises which real case?

The Smurls' own version had already been told in a 1986 paperback and a TV film called The Haunted.

In Last Rites, the haunted family moves to West Pittston in which state?

The action is set in 1986, twenty-two years after the Warrens' first encounter with the cursed mirror.

Which haunted object is at the centre of Last Rites?

The Warrens first met the demon through the mirror at a curio shop in 1964, the night Judy was born.

Who plays the adult Judy Warren in Last Rites, replacing Sterling Jerins?

Jerins, who played Judy since 2013, was judged too young-looking for the 1986 setting.

Judy's boyfriend Tony Spera in Last Rites is played by which actor?

The real Tony Spera and Judy Warren appear as guests in Ed's birthday party scene.

Last Rites' $84M North American opening ranked where among horror openings at the time?

It was also Warner Bros.' seventh straight film to open above $40 million, a first for any studio.

In Last Rites, the Smurls are terrorised by an old woman, a young woman and a man wielding what?

Lorraine works out that the man killed his wife and her mother, and that a demon is controlling all three spirits.

What is the title of the franchise prequel scheduled for September 2027?

It follows the young Ed and Lorraine's early investigations, with younger actors in the roles.

Which spin-off was the franchise's highest-grossing film until 2025, at $365.6 million on a $22 million budget?

Last Rites finally passed it in 2025 with $499 million worldwide.

Who directed the first Annabelle spin-off in 2014?

He had been the cinematographer on The Conjuring; the film made about 40 times its $6.5 million budget.

Annabelle: Creation centres on which profession of the man whose daughter died twelve years earlier?

David F. Sandberg, fresh from Lights Out, directed; critics called it a big improvement on the first Annabelle.

James Wan compared Annabelle Comes Home to which family comedy?

It was writer Gary Dauberman's directorial debut, with Mckenna Grace as young Judy Warren.

Which actress plays the demon nun Valak across The Conjuring 2 and both Nun films?

The Nun grossed $365.6 million on a $22 million budget, briefly the franchise's biggest hit.

Which actress, sister of Vera, plays Sister Irene in The Nun?

The Nun was shot in Bucharest, Romania, starting in May 2017.

The Curse of La Llorona is only loosely tied to the universe through which returning character?

Tony Amendola's priest links the weeping woman to his brush with the doll from Annabelle.

By the end of 2025, roughly what had the entire Conjuring Universe grossed worldwide?

That made it the top-earning horror franchise; the combined budget of all the films is about $263 million.

The real Annabelle doll in the Warrens' museum was what kind of toy?

The films redesigned her partly over trademark worries and partly because a rag doll is not scary enough.

In which Connecticut town did the Warrens keep their Occult Museum?

It closed in 2019 over zoning violations; comedian Matt Rife bought the house and collection in 2025.

In what year did the real Ed and Lorraine Warren found the New England Society for Psychic Research?

They claimed to have investigated more than 10,000 cases; skeptics dismissed the evidence as 'blarney'.

Parapsychologist Guy Lyon Playfair, who worked the real 1977 poltergeist case, said the Warrens did what?

He recalled Ed saying they 'could make a lot of money' out of the case.